Improvement in lamp-baskets



P. J. CLARK.

Lamp Basket.

Patent-ed Feb. 6,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATRlCK J. CLARK, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT lN LAMP-BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 123,379, datedFebruary 6, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Lamp-Basket, invented byPATRICK J. CLARK, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven and Stateof Connecticut.

My invention consists of a combination of one or more springs with themetal baskets or cups of brackets for suspending lamp-holders arrangedto spring upon the annular bead or rib near the center of the lamps andhold them from being accidentally thrown out.

Figure 1 is partly a side elevation and part- 1y a sectional elevationof my improved basket and a side elevation of a lamp, and Fig. 2 is atop view of Fig. l.

A is the basket and B the lamp, both of which are of the ordinary kindused, when the lamp is to be suspended by hangers or brackets, exceptthat I apply springs C to said bracket for fastening the lamps, so thatthey will not fall out if accidentally struck or shaken the said springsbeing so attached to the basket and shaped that they will spring againstthe annular bead D, or other projecting portion commonly formed on thelamp thereat, as shown, and hold it so as not to be liable to be thrustout accidentally, as often occurs with the baskets or cups not havingsuch springs.

I prefer to have three of these springs, but may have more or less, asmay be preferred.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent The basket A, provided With spring C on the insidethereof, as and for the purpose de scribed.

PATRICK J. CLARK.

Witnesses:

JOHN Q. THAYER, W. A. HULL.

